Resources

In addition to the broad technical skills of our staff,
CSM has many physical resources to apply to challenging problems. Autonomous collaborative robots,
driving simulators, high-end computing and communication
systems, and immersive visualization environments are just a
few of the resources available in the division and through our centers.

When first established by CSM, the automotive crashworthiness project had assets including several vehicles (Audi A8s, Ford Explorer) and portions of vehicles, used to construct digital models for
computational simulations. Current resources include a portfolio of digital models and associated materials datasets used for computational simulations.

The Center for Computational Sciences (CCS)
provides state-of-the-art supercomputing resources
with integrated access to immersive visualization and collaborative tools.
Center resources include high-performance supercomputing systems and
terabytes of archival storage.
CCS was one of the first two high-performance computing research centers
established by the DOE Office of Science.

Research at the CCS Climate and Carbon Research Center (CCR) focuses on the computational aspects of how the global climate and carbon systems interact with natural and anthropogenic processes. The goals of the CCS CCR are to serve as a world-class climate and carbon research center and to be a focal point for the computational climate and carbon simulation community.

The Center for Engineering Science Advanced
Research (CESAR), established as a national resource in 1984 by the
DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, is a collaborative research
facility providing guests from universities, federal laboratories, and
industry with access to state-of-the-art (and often
unique) technology and equipment in a stimulating research environment.
CESAR resources include

The CSM computing environment includes a network of
Unix workstations; Unix, Linux, and NT servers;
experimental and production clusters;
PCs and Macs; notebook computers; and a variety of
network communications equipment, including wireless LANs.

DOE's Probe testbed allows storage activities related to the High-Performance Storage System (HPSS) to be investigated. to be
investigated. The National Energy Research
Supercomputer Center (NERSC) is also a participant in PROBE and is
constructing a similar facility.

The Tennessee Oak Ridge Cluster (TORC) Project
is a collaborative effort between the University of Tennessee's Innovative
Computer Laboratory and the CSM. Uses of this testbed include development of
user interfaces to assist in the system management of PC
clusters.